As a Federal Policy Advocate at NRDC, I work to advance clean energy and energy efficiency policies at the state and federal levels. I work with a variety of constituents from labor to business to support policies that will build a strong clean energy economy. I’ve been with NRDC since 2007, with a brief year break to work with the Obama Campaign’s National Advance Team and then as an Advance Consultant for the White House. I graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Social Studies.
As a California native and a painter, I love being outdoors. I also have a passion for politics—the people you get to meet, the causes, the organizing…pretty much everything.

America’s manufacturing sector is the largest in the world and reducing energy waste at industrial facilities can provide huge benefits for the companies, workers, and the communities in which they work. That was reinforced yesterday by the BlueGreen Alliance, a...continued→

The public strongly supports energy efficiency standards for light bulbs that were passed with bipartisan support in Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2007 and went into effect this year. As poll after poll shows,...continued→

Just who is South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint working for? Last week, the Republican senator introduced legislation (S. 2064) that would terminate existing incentives for clean energy technologies. You’d think South Carolina’s senator would want to protect his state’s interests,...continued→

Among the national priorities highlighted in President Obama’s State of the Union speech, few garnered as strong a positive reaction from voters as his plan to reform our energy system and build the nation’s rapidly growing clean energy economy. As...continued→

When did it become acceptable for our leaders in Washington to say that U.S. companies should just throw in the towel, that America shouldn’t compete in the global economy and that we should just cede leadership to other nations and...continued→

It’s hard to imagine that any company would oppose efforts to save American lives, not to mention avoid a significant number of asthma attacks, heart attacks, and emergency room visits that result from mercury, soot and other toxic air pollution. ...continued→

Last week, NRDC, Consumers Union and state public interest groups, including Environment Illinois, Environment Ohio, Ohio Partners for Affordable Energy, and Sierra Club Michigan and Sierra Club Illinois, released four new polls in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and Maine that show...continued→

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a new report on the economic and health benefits of the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act from 1990 to 2020. The results of the report are absolutely staggering—benefits of the 1990...continued→

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